My subdomain stopped working
reddit / selfhosted

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Jeffery8923 · 2023-12-15 20:57

Hello,

I tried to install an SSL certificate with the help of the
[desec.io](http://desec.io/) Docs but it didnt work so I tried to to
that with Lets Encrypt ones (I followed the instructions on
[https://letsencrypt.org/](https://letsencrypt.org/)).  After
following Lets Encrypt instructions the console displayed a  message
saying that the certificate is installed. But when I tried to go  to
my website using the subdomain the browser said that it can\`t access
the website. I uninstalled the certificate but it is still not
working.  I also deleted the A record and made it again but that didnt
help.

Can you tell how I can fix this?

Thanks in advance,

Jeff.

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thekrautboy · 2023-12-15 21:00

> I tried to install an SSL certificate with the help of the desec.io
Docs

What does that exactly mean? Can you link to what you did?

> but it didnt work

Any details on that? What didnt work how? Error messages? Log outputs?

>  After following Lets Encrypt instructions the console displayed a
message saying that the certificate is installed. But when I tried to
go to my website using the subdomain the browser said that it can`t
access the website. I uninstalled the certificate but it is still not
working.

There is a whole lot of info missing here. How did you generate your
certificate? What software did you use for that? What webserver are
you now using to serve it? What are the exact error messages? Log
outputs?

Btw the [deSEC forum](https://talk.desec.io/) is very good but i doubt
your problem lies with deSEC itself.

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StruggleElegant3855 · 2023-12-15 21:17

Save your self the headache and use cloudflare free DNS to handle SSL
if you can set your domain nameservers. Otherwise make a txt file of
your setup and feed it into chatGPT then ask it how to set up the SSL
cert for your specific setup. @u/thekrautboy ill take the time to help
people since your hell bent on being another stackoverfolw cunt.

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thekrautboy · 2023-12-15 21:18

You are so odd. Why do you keep replying to my own comments, phrasing
it like you reply to the OP, and then also tagging my username (and
failing at it, this isnt Twitter/X).

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ibfreeekout · 2023-12-15 21:23

And then realize that they're forwarding traffic over HTTP without any
of the users knowing about it, opening the requests up for being
tampered with between Cloudflare and the servers. Still worth having
HTTPS setup in that direction too.

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thekrautboy · 2023-12-15 22:44

Oh what happened, did you delete your own comment
/u/StruggleElegant3855? Why?

But you claimed before that youre so proud of everything you say and
that none of your posts ever get removed :(